Massachusetts’ largest hospital system has set cost savings targets after state regulators found fault with its healthcare spending growth and pressured the nonprofit to scale back a proposed expansion project.
Keith Zimmerman will replace longtime HCA Healthcare leader Mel Lagarde, who is retiring.
The payer plans to open about 100 new value-based primary care clinics for Medicare patients between 2023 and 2025 through the latest deal.
The insurer is accused of failing to disclose the potential negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business before its March 2021 IPO.
The first quarter is going to be “one of the worst for most of our providers,” Fitch Analyst Kevin Holloran said last week.
Proposed average increases on individual and family plans of 17% for MVP Health Care and 12% for Blue Cross Blue Shield in the state buck the national trend of declining ACA exchange premiums.
The agreement, which covers three experimental vaccines as well as several key patents, makes products sold in 49 low-income countries royalty-free.
Renewed efforts to pass federal requirements for healthcare employers come as some systems are implementing their own policies to keep workers safe.
The multibillion-dollar Cerner implementation hasn’t improved data exchange as well as some had hoped, as the departments “did not take all actions needed to achieve interoperability,” the audit found.
Hospital mergers with geographic overlap face challenges. This deal doesn’t “raise the same red flags, but it doesn’t mean that it gets waved through,” said Leemore Dafny, former deputy director of healthcare and antitrust at the FTC.